Omaha daily bee., 1887-07-10
CONNUBiAIiITlES.

a bride has been selected for the emperor
of China and the wedding festivities. which
are shortly to take place, will cost S. 600 900.
The king OF Servia, it Is said, will marry
one OF his wife's former danes of honor if he
succeeds in obtaining divorce from Queen
Nathalie.
widow at Hartford, Mich, fifty years old
has sued widower eghty-iive years old for a
breach of promise, claiming $4,000 damage.
The widower is worth S300,0OO. '1he love
oil money Is the root of all evil.'
One of the bridegrooms Of the week com.
planned of the clerpyman's fee. "a widower
who you married at Easter" said he, 'tells
me that you charged him very much less"
True, " said the Rey. Dr. H, but he was
regular cuStnmer."
lish Judge who married the beautiful Lady
Diana, sister of the duke of st. Albans, re-
Gently found It necessary while trying a
breach OF promise suit to have elucidated the
meaning OF the Little crosses at the bottom OF
love letter.
o., the wedding occurred of the Neck Tycoon
Where it's hot enough to smother;
lie was married in haste to the NJ. Quadroon !;
Inc Jaguar Another
Ate Monkey Nive at the wedding-feast
And maraged to perform
similar feat on barrel. at least,
vi the clam before the Storm
:, Miss Lucie Stuart, the only daughter OF
william A. Stuart the principal owner of the
w
ginia, and one of the bellies of "the White'
ior the last four years. was married at the
family residence, Elk Garden. Russell county,
va, recently to Mr.. Campbell, of Wythe-
vile, va. The bride is a niece of the famous
confederate cavalry chieftain. General "Jeb'
Stuart.
An interesting engagement Just reported Is
that of Joseph Anderson, brother of Mary
Anderson, the actress, to Miss Gertrude Bar
rett, second daughter of Lawrence Barrett,
hll ira ion ntl NJ fbo ,front tipfv
ties are well known in England and the
United States. Mr.. Anderson is a tall, hand
some young man, and he has had consider
able social success in London. His specially
is fashionable clothing.
The Jewish "shadkin," or marriage broker,
in Brooklyn, n. Y, spent some time in en-
deayOrng to negotiate marriage between a
customer who agreed to give 10 per cent Of
his wife's dowry in case of success, and one
Kate Wolf, who was the posseSSOr OF So O00
The shadkin's powers of persuasion were un.
equal to the job however. as the girl protested
that the applicants mouth aud nose were too
large. The broker and his client fell out
over the matter. and the result is lawsuit
for damages between them.
One of the swellest weddings of the
season will be that of Thurlow Weed
Barnes, nephew of the late Thur
low Weed, and Miss Frances Isabel Morris,
from $40. 600, ,OCO to Sl5,OOO,OOO. Miss Norris
is his only child. She is worth $500 COO in
her own right and on her wedding day she
will receive 81, COO, 600 more from her indul-
gent father. The ceremony will take place
at the family country seat at Throgg's Neck,
WeStchester county. Thousands of invita-
tons will he sent out to all sections of the
United States-to New Orleans where Mr..
Morris married.; to Chicago. San Francisco
and to Europe, where the bride-elect went to
school. The Morrises. it is said, intend to
make the wedding an epithaamium in every
sense of the word, general rejoicing over
the recovery of their daughter, who has been
residence will be literally filled with the
choicest flowers the world can produce, and
the days following the wedding will be a
series of fetes.